grades 1st-6th
study Guide &Narrative history chapter book with hand-drawn black and white illustrations and maps
literature not includedÂ
History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is a comprehensive and engaging, full-year secular history curriculum for elementary-age children. Designed to be used with the History Quest: Middle Times narrative history book and other resources, it provides 34 weeks of creative, hands-on activities, literature suggestions, geography study, and writing assignments that help bring history to life.
Each unit in the guide corresponds to a chapter from History Quest: Middle Times and provides a week’s worth of engaging and interactive activities laid out in clear, easy-to-follow lesson plans. You’ll find a suggested daily schedule that focuses on a different learning technique each day, important terms and concepts related to that week’s reading, resource recommendations, and more. Best of all, each week’s plan can be followed as written in the guide or easily adapted to meet your family’s particular needs and interests.
A helpful appendix section in the back features literature and supply lists for the entire course, as well as map keys and student activity pages (conveniently perforated and reproducible for easy single-family use).
Within the curriculum, we’ve included four weeks of Hygge History, a special tie-in literature study encouraging parents and students to snuggle up together and enjoy classic tales from four cultures that are studied in this course—the Middle East, Britain, Japan, and Africa. Based on the Danish philosophy of hygge, which emphasizes coziness and comfort, these units are a great way to slow down, connect, and learn more about a particular time and place through storytelling. Each Hygge History unit comes with detailed descriptions of suggested books for that week to help you choose the right one for your child.
Through History Quest: Middle Times, students will learn about the ideas, conflicts, inventions, and individuals that shaped the world during the Middle Ages and take their first step in a life-long quest to explore and appreciate history.